Aranel

Painted Without The Brush: dress in the theme of a particular paintbrush (e.g., Elderly, Valentine's, Halloween) but using none of the items from the actual paintbrush.

Wow. A Neopets event launched with bugs? What a shocking turn of events!

For some reason I didn't know we didn't have a transparent Koi! LOL

The artists do tend to go through 'phases' with certain colours. I guess they're just in a gem phase? Not really a fan, and I'm mainly just annoyed that the relic PB is probably going to increase in price again, sigh
And it does look copied and pasted ^ although at least the back claws are different from the front claws.

Ehhh. What in the whole world are they doing to Relics?! I feel like the last few have been just awful, IMO. This gives mad haunted woods vibes, until you get to the tail?! I rarely complain on here, but I've been waiting on a Relic Lupe for years - and this is NOT what I was looking forward to AT ALL lol 

I would be really interested to know what the average Neopets user's age is. I'm guessing it's mostly adults. (But then again, maybe that's just who I associate with.) Regardless, this decision makes approximately zero sense; the rules that were already in place about what you could and couldn't discuss on the boards seemed sufficient to me to keep things from getting "too" "real-life".
I was so excited that TNT has started to be more openly inclusive and mindful of LGBTQ+ people and disabled people. But this feels like a HUGE step backward.
And how is it more "child friendly" to punish people for talking about absolutely anything non-NP-related? I feel like a rule like that is harder for kids to follow than adults.
 
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to edit my previous comment, so please forgive the double comment. Am I missing something obvious?
But I wanted to add this screenshot I JUST took.
The white highlight is how it's normally displayed; I added the red line for emphasis. So... what IS the truth?

I would be really interested to know what the average Neopets user's age is. I'm guessing it's mostly adults. (But then again, maybe that's just who I associate with.) Regardless, this decision makes approximately zero sense; the rules that were already in place about what you could and couldn't discuss on the boards seemed sufficient to me to keep things from getting "too" "real-life".
I was so excited that TNT has started to be more openly inclusive and mindful of LGBTQ+ people and disabled people. But this feels like a HUGE step backward.
And how is it more "child friendly" to punish people for talking about absolutely anything non-NP-related? I feel like a rule like that is harder for kids to follow than adults.
 
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to edit my previous comment, so please forgive the double comment. Am I missing something obvious?
But I wanted to add this screenshot I JUST took.
The white highlight is how it's normally displayed; I added the red line for emphasis. So... what IS the truth?

I would be really interested to know what the average Neopets user's age is. I'm guessing it's mostly adults. (But then again, maybe that's just who I associate with.) Regardless, this decision makes approximately zero sense; the rules that were already in place about what you could and couldn't discuss on the boards seemed sufficient to me to keep things from getting "too" "real-life".
I was so excited that TNT has started to be more openly inclusive and mindful of LGBTQ+ people and disabled people. But this feels like a HUGE step backward.
And how is it more "child friendly" to punish people for talking about absolutely anything non-NP-related? I feel like a rule like that is harder for kids to follow than adults.
 
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to edit my previous comment, so please forgive the double comment. Am I missing something obvious?
But I wanted to add this screenshot I JUST took.
The white highlight is how it's normally displayed; I added the red line for emphasis. So... what IS the truth?

I would be really interested to know what the average Neopets user's age is. I'm guessing it's mostly adults. (But then again, maybe that's just who I associate with.) Regardless, this decision makes approximately zero sense; the rules that were already in place about what you could and couldn't discuss on the boards seemed sufficient to me to keep things from getting "too" "real-life".
I was so excited that TNT has started to be more openly inclusive and mindful of LGBTQ+ people and disabled people. But this feels like a HUGE step backward.
And how is it more "child friendly" to punish people for talking about absolutely anything non-NP-related? I feel like a rule like that is harder for kids to follow than adults.
 
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to edit my previous comment, so please forgive the double comment. Am I missing something obvious?
But I wanted to add this screenshot I JUST took.
The white highlight is how it's normally displayed; I added the red line for emphasis. So... what IS the truth?

Yeah I'm with Faerieland and we always talk about stuff like that too around AC season. Heck there's even the premium boards which is a bunch of nonsense and the word associate game that goes on both on premium and regular boards.


They also have encouraged players to go on reddit too, even though you can't talk about reddit on the site. They made a "Sorry Mommy Sorry" meme on their official Tik Tok (which is highly inappropriate), can look at the comments on that one with people getting upset and saying "I'd get frozen for saying this on the boards". I mean even the april fools joke this year! Plot about staff members being brutally murdered, got neopets that eat other neopets, items that are highly questionable xD There's been board that have also been allowed to stay up (PUBLIC BOARDS) about BDSM and the like. So I don't really know what they're doing. I've been a huge supporter of Neo and still will be around, but at this point I mainly stay for the nostalgia and for the people I've met along the way. I like to give the staff some slack cause I know their a small team with a HUGE player-base, I mean even after the possible AC soft-bans/shadow-bans last year, NFT and data leak scandal, I still was like "let's not be so harsh guys, the main neo team didn't want the NFT's" but it's like come on guys, I'm trying to give ya the benefit of the doubt, throw us a bone LOL

Today's news post is even telling people to go onto the reddit. O.o

Well, that's going to make the Altador Cup even more tedious than normal, isn't it?? 
The team chats are full of off-topic nonsense inbetween scoring and suchlike. I remember having a full discussion about what we did whilst also playing endless SOSD last year that divolved into a full book recommendation list...
Are they trying - I mean, really, actively trying - to destroy the site? I don't spend much time on the boards admittedly, but many of those who do are the most committed long standing players. Why are they trying to chase them away!?
And child friendly until we look at the NC Malls Gatcha mechanics with capsules. Spend a fortune to not necessarily get the items you want and gamble on a low chance of getting the special edition item. Exactly how is that child friendly??

I wanted to make a few people aware of this in case people didn't know, but I believe that it is important enough information for people, especially those that use the boards.

Neopets has changed a bunch of their chat rules, or rather are starting to enforce things more harshly as to what you can and cannot talk about. According to this post here; many users have been reporting getting warnings & bans/freezes for discussing non-neopets related things after TNT had allowed such chats in the Newbie Board on the Neoboards. 

The Newbie Board/Chat use to be a pretty big space for general chatting between users and has been that way for a couple of decades now. If you scroll down a little bit further in the above mentioned post you can see more detailed information. To paraphrase; Neopets is owned by a company called Netdragon who has a CEO who is an AI and it recently deleted the accounts of Adam and Donna who were the LITERAL creators of Neopets, shortly after that the Newbie Board got re-vamped/changed to "New to Neopets" and a "General Discussion" board was put up that users have been asking for a while for. Excited to see this board up many user went over to it and began posting away. About a day later TNT makes up a new rule with no official warning that we cannot talk about anything none related to neopets on the boards, including non-neopian related clothing and food! If you even so much as mention a hat it must be a neopets hat. This is an ACTUAL example given by a staff member Alice, which I will post a screenie of below. They then began freezing & issuing warnings to people that posted non-neopet related things on the board called general discussions. After days of people contacting TNT wondering why the warnings, bans, etc were happening they FINALLY made an announcement saying; no non-neopets talk is allowed on ANY of their boards & that they started freezing & warning people on the newbie chat for posts that were made days before the rules changed & this is all because neopets wants to be 100% child friendly. (Yet they're selling wine glasses in the merch shop, have had irl events at bars and many not-so-child friendly items, references and events LOL)

I don't really know what this means for guilds or personal DM's as the message from Alice does specifically say "OUR BOARDS", so guild may still be safe for general discussion as although they are on neopets, they're not official boards, but I am not sure if this is actually the case. Same goes for DM's, I would hope/assume they are, but I have no real idea or any way to really know. I just know that this will cause a lot of people to move to chatting offsite for sure. (If they weren't ALREADY doing that.)

Uggggh, hard agree. I totally avoid anything that requires that kind of repeated option now because it's SO annoying and time-consuming. I wish you luck with your efforts!

Yeah nice thing about it being an outfit is you can just leave the eye-mushrooms off
Boy they've really been on a mushroom kick lately haven't they? there was the woodland buzz, and then the chia, now this. I'm liking it!
Nice colour and outfit although they're not knocking the RB chomby off my dream pet list.

Man, you know fungi are really having a pop culture moment when one person references TLOU, another one references Mexican Gothic, and yet another (hi, it’s me) is thinking What Moves the Dead. 
 
I actually like the look better without the eye mushrooms; I love the way the rest of the set gives sort of a forgotten forest deity/ancient one/post-humanity vibe, but the eyeshrooms sort of break the magic for me. Not sure why. Love the rest of the set though! 

I'll be honest, the mushrooms coming out of the eyes is a bit too creepy for me, but I'm happy there's more of that for the spooky scary users out there! Reminds me of something from Mexican Gothic.
 

What is that second one supposed to be? The Last of Us?

Toy
  
  Hot Dog

 

Oooh, inspired by Nerds Rope, perhaps? I love the sprinkles of candy on the ground around the feet.

Candy
     Bakery  

Hi all,
First of all: my apologies that I still haven't put the most recent round up! I'll try to get around to that this week.
Then on to the main issue: in addition to the fact that I've been very busy(/tired) lately, interest in The Runway also seems to have gone down quite a bit, which makes it challenging for me to keep it going.
I definitely need a little break, but I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to motivate myself to pick it up again later. I guess that partly depends on whether or not there's enough interest in it.
So, if anyone knows of ways to generate more interest in The Runway (and is willing to help out/take charge in actually implementing these ideas), I'd love to hear it! Also, if you're interested in taking over running The Runway from me, please let me know. Some fresh eyes and energy might be just what The Runway needs.
Anyway, let me just apologise again for the complete lack of updates in recent weeks! Time kind of got away from me. 😬

Neopets has released a new Beta update featuring loads of bug fixes, the return of maps and the conversion of an old Daily!
Return of the World Map, as well as all lands maps (with some updated) New Mystery Island Theme in your preferences Test Your Strength has now been converted Pets are now viewable on the QuickRef page Neoboard colours now work Worms now functional in Moltara Loads of Wearable and Customization fixes, including UC Pets now being Customisable. And much more... view full release notes, including known issues, here. Up next, TNT is working on the first phase of the UC Pets release, News & Inventory updates and more. 

That Plushie design sure is crowded haha, but I like it, in an odd chaotic way, it's cute! The fuzzy pompoms for the ears are adorable, and I also like the feathers that make it look like a peacock.
The outfits are lovely! The books on the hat are marvelous, as well as the design on the skirt. It's perfect for a fancy, old timey librarian! The other clothes are nice too, not too bland with the feathers, but they keep a simple design.
It's what the Vandagyres deserve on this wonderful day!

not a fan of the plushie except in the 'dear god that's terrible i love it' sense. it looks like the artist drew 10 different mockups and then asked their supervisor which one to use and their supervisor just said 'yes.'
that outfit though......... that is...
dare i say it.........
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..
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a fancy hat. 🤩
seriously though i'm thinking that might be JUST the thing for Doideag if I decide to commit to an all-vandagyre account! could go nice with grey... although tbh the red looks really nice as is? and i have no other pets that i intend to be basic, could be something unique... or maybe white? that would twin well with my christmas vanda!
well i got a month or so to consider while i wait for the price to go down lol

Most colours have one or two outliers (like the spotted vandagyre or the speckle usul). I do agree that consistency is nice, though, especially with the colours that have shifted their direction over time. Sometimes I like it (with the Toy colour, for example.) Other times... *cough burlap cough* not so much.